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Purchase

Available for educational institutions for $100 (includes public performance license) plus $10 shipping and handling payable to Skylight Pictures.
Purchase Orders can be e-mailed to Sally Eberhardt . Individuals and community groups wishing to purchase the film should contact Peter Kinoy .


Film Details

Released: 1999
Running Time: 1 Hour

Credits

Produced and directed by Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy

A presentation of the Independent Television Service

Educational Resources

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

Outriders

In the heady boom times people at the bottom of the economic ladder are becoming invisible, but a handful of desperately poor Americans refuse to disappear. Fifty of them; infants, teens, mothers, and grandmothers, crowd into a “freedom bus” and criss-cross the United States documenting the effects of “welfare reform” on other poor people. Their mission: to place evidence of growing American poverty before the United Nations.

Outriders

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The Outriders know that this trip won’t be easy; hardly enough gas or money, cramped on a bus each day and sleeping-out each night. What the Outriders don’t know is that this trip will challenge them in unimaginable ways and change each of them forever. This third film in the “Poverty in America” trilogy premiered at the International Peace Conference at the Hague, May, 1999. Broadcast on PBS in 2000. Since then it has been used by hundreds of activists and educators around the country.